Sunday, May 22, 2011

Getting Started

Last chance to change my mind and just build
a B-17G like everybody else does.
On the left is a photo of the Monogram B-17G fuselage halves taped together and ready for chopping. The Koster conversion kit provides directions on where to cut with some measurements to go by. You need to mark a spot just aft of the trailing edge of the wing root to remove the tail. The Koster kit tells you to measure 1/2" from the last etched panel line past the radio room window.  I found that this would cut across the wing root fairing and, after checking measurements from scale drawings, chose to shift further aft about 1/4".

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